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Swathers & Wonsovers. Still other new machines are in the works. The Owatonna Tool Co. is building a self-propelled hay "swather" to take the place of the standard 7-ft. mower. Twelve feet across, it will slice through fields, cut and pile the hay in rows in a single operation, thus displacing (with a single operator) two men and three tractors, two mowers and a pair of hay rakes. Ford is working on a low-cost combine for medium-sized farms, a new corn picker that can be attached to the front of a standard four-wheeled tractor. Another...
...around the track. Drivers slowed down, forbidden to pass each other until the danger was past. Black fumes, more ominous than any thunderhead, eased upward over the backstretch. The racket of racing engines sounded loud against the tense and quiet crowd. Reason for the yellow lights: a four-car pile-up that had jammed the track ahead of Wild Bill Vukovich. All the luck in the world was not enough to bypass disaster. Vuky never had a chance. His Hopkins Special plowed into the tangled wreckage at 150 m.p.h., bounced into the air, caromed off a parked car and clipped...
Died. Bill Vukovich, 36, two-time winner (1953 and 1954) of the Memorial Day Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race; in a five-car pile-up as he led the pack on the 57th lap (see SPORT...
...G.A.W., the union wants the auto companies to put 4% of the payroll in a base year (probably 1953, since it was the industry's highest employment period) into a reserve fund for five years, or as long as it takes to pile up a sum equal to 20% of the payroll. When the 20% total is reached, payments would stop, would not be resumed until after the fund is depleted by money drawn out to pay laid-off workers. No matter which base year is chosen, G.A.W. would cost the companies a maximum of 8% of their yearly...
...change in air pressure. Two of three steel industrial buildings were ruined. A doorknob had been torn from a door and cast half through a wall, so that there was a doorknob where there was no door. Each of two typical American houses, one brick, one wood, was a pile of rubble and jackstraws. A mannequin still sat at a kitchen table in another house, but her wig had been stripped off; it was found in the remains of the refriger ator; another dummy was skewered with jagged glass. Cars were smashed as if a monster fist had crashed down...